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She was forced to leave her personal effects behind, but her presence of mind saved one treasure in the White House a large portrait of General Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart. That priceless portrait and the plate were all that survived.
Douglas, Stuart, and Broderick were the only Democrats to oppose its passage, Pugh having joined the majority. The bill passed the House also, nine of Douglas's associates in the anti-Lecompton fight going over to the administration. Douglas accepted this defection with philosophic equanimity, indulging in no vindictive feelings. Had he not himself felt misgivings as to his own course?
Such a phantom of former days still creeps, I have been informed, round the statue of Charles the Second, in the Parliament Square, as if the image of a Stuart were the last refuge for any memorial of our ancient manners; and one or two others are supposed to glide around the door of the guardhouse assigned to them in the Luckenbooths, when their ancient refuge in the High Street was laid low.*
Crouching between the wall of the tunnel and the passing train, they listened to it as it rumbled away in the distance towards a mere dot of light which disclosed the far end of the tunnel. Then that dot was of a sudden blotted out of sight, and the rumbling became louder. "What's that?" demanded Stuart.
On the day of her arrival the marriage was celebrated, "according to the usual form in cases of the like nature." The "Stuart Papers" give a brief account of the ceremony.
She was strongly opposed to Federation, as, indeed were large numbers of clever people in New South Wales. An afternoon meeting on effective voting was arranged at the Sydney University, I think, by Dr. Anderson Stuart. We were charmed with the university and its beautiful surroundings. Among the visitors that afternoon was Mrs.
And he had told Annie some of the funny stories in it, hence John had begged it from Malcolm, who had borrowed it from a High School boy in Cheemaun. So the three sat them down in a shady nook, against a mossy log, and listened with delight while John read. They took turns at reading aloud; Charles Stuart was the best reader, and Elizabeth the worst.
But you English had possessed the fort; you had claimed it; and now he would say that it was yours, yours to be burnt in, to be starved in, to die in, to leave your bones in, till they are thrust forth by the rightful owner to be gnawed by the wolf of the wilderness." There was a momentary silence. "Vastly polite!" exclaimed Captain Stuart, with a rollicking laugh.
These, however, declined to undertake the perilous task, and the honor fell to Lieutenant Green of the marines, who thereupon selected two squads of twelve men each to attempt an entrance through the door. To Lee's aide, Lieutenant Stuart, who had known Brown in Kansas, was committed the task of making the formal demand for surrender.
I mean the one who rode over the jumps like a devil and blarneyed me afterward like an angel." The secretary arched her brows. "Do you mean the Virginian? His name was Stuart Farquaharson." "Do you know where he lives or anything else about him?" "Why, no that is, nothing in the social sense." Miss Andrews smiled quietly as she added, "I've read some of his stories in the magazines." "All right.
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